Bottle-filler.



No. 745,051. v .P'ATENI'ED NOV. 24, 1903.,

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BOTTLE FILLER.

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SAMUEL B. GOFF, OF CAMDEN, NEl/V JERSEY.

BOTTLE-FILLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 745,051, dated November 24, 1903;

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL B. Gone", a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden, in the county of Camden, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Fillers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottle-fillers.

It consists of means for filling simultaneously a plurality of bottles or like receptacles.

It further consists of novel details of construction, all as will be hereinafter fully setforth. I

Figure 1 represents in vertical section a bottle-filler embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top plan view of a detached bottle-case. Fig. 3 represents atop plan View of a detached liquid-tray. Fig. 4 represents an end view of my bottle-filler. Fig. 5 represents a vertical section of a detached part of the liquid-tray retainer, taken on the line 0000, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 represents an elevation of a detached latch.

Similar numerals of reference indicatecorresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a table provided with a track 2. On this track runs a truck 3, consisting, as shown, of a pair of inverted-T-shaped supports connected bysuitable cross-bars and having grooved wheels adapted to run on the track 2 and bearings for trunnions 4, which support a bottle-case 5. Rising from the bottom of the case 5 is a plurality of follower-plates 6, supported on springs 7. The rear wall of the case 5 has an outwardly and an upwardly extending flange forming an extension 8. Above this and extending all around the upper portion of thecase 5 is a second similarlyformed extension 9.

On the table 1 is a pair of standards 11, having grooves 12, in which slide bars 13. Near the upper ends of the bars 13 are pivots 14, on which turn levers 15, connected by a rod 16. At the lower end of the levers 15 are rollers 17. At the foot of each bar 13 is an eye 18, through which passesa lever 19, pivoted to the table 1 at its rear end. The pair of levers 19 are connected together by crossbars 21. One or both of the levers has a depending rod or strap 22 connected to a Application filed April 13, 1903. Serial No. 15 2,351- (No model.)

treadle (not shown) on the door. A thrustspring 23 acts to raise the levers 19, slides 13, and connected parts. A latch 19, pivotally' attached to the table 1, engages with the lever 19 when in its depressed position. Adapted to seat in the extension 9 of the case 4 is a tray 24, having a projecting flange 25. On the bottom of the tray 24 is a plurality of transverse strips 26, shown as of angular cross-section, which serve to form a plurality of gutters 27, leading into a trough 28. The trough 28 has an orifice 29 and is normally filled bya bar 30, which also closes the orifice 29. Ears 31 at the ends of the tray 24 form pivots for the lever 32, by which the bar 30 may be raised. A plurality of apertures 33 is made through the bottom of the tray 24 between the pairs of strips forming the gutters 27.

The operation is as follows: The case 5 is filled with bottles requiring to be filled with any desired liquid. The truck 3, on which the case 5 is supported, is then run back to bring the case between the standards 11, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings. The tray 24 is then placed in the extended top of the case 5 and'the treadle depressed, the latch 19' serving to hold the, lever 19 in its operative position. This forces the bottles down to the position shown in Fig. 1, the followers 6 giving way to allow for slight differences in their heights. To hold the tray 24 still more firmly, the levers 15 may be turned to a vertical position, causing the rollers 17 to bear with greater force on the flange 25 of the tray. The bar 30 being depressed by the lever 32 serves to fill the trough 28 and to close the orifice 29 of the tray 24. The bottles are then filled by pouring a suificient quantity of the liquid into the tray, the liquid entering the bottles through theapertures 33, which aline with their mouths. By raisingthe bar 30 the excess of liquid on the tray pours through the orifice 29 into a receptacle. (Not shown.) Convenient means (not shown) may be used to displace from the neck of each bottle a sufficient volume of the liquid to permit the insertion of a cork or other stopper. By throwing back the latch 19' the slides 13 will be raised through the action of the spring 23 on the lever 19. The tray 24 is then removed from the case 5, when the bottles may be removed or washed in situ as desired. The truck may then be run forward on the track 2, the bottle removed, stoppered, washed, and labeled in any desired manner.

It will be evident that various changes may be made by those skilled in the art which may come within the scope of my invention, and I do not, therefore, desire to be limited in every instance to the exact construction herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A bottle-filling device comprising means for holding a plurality of bottles, a liquid-receiving tray adapted to cover the bottles and having apertures corresponding in number and position to their mouths, means forholding said tray in contact with such mouths and means for drawing the liquid from said tray after the bottles are filled.

2. A bottle-filling device comprising a case -for holding a plurality of bottles, a plurality of spring-supported followers in said case on one of which each of the bottles rests, a liquidreceiving tray adapted to cover the bottles and having apertures corresponding in numher and position to their mouths, means for holding said tray in contact with such mouths and means for draining the liquid from said tray after the bottles are filled.

3. A bottle-filling device comprising a case for holding a plurality of bottles, a liquid-receiving tray adapted to cover the bottles having apertures corresponding in number and position to their mouths, means for holding the botles with their months in contact with said apertures, a trough in said tray having a dischargeorifice for drawing the liquid from said tray after the bottles have been filled and a bar removably filling said trough and closing said orifice.

4. A bottle-filling device comprising a table, standards on said table, a truck, a bottle-holding case supported on said truck, a liquid-re ceiving tray adapted to cover the bottles having apertures corresponding in number and position to their mouths, means connected with said standards for holding said tray in position and means for draining the liquid from said tray after the bottles are filled.

5. A bottlefilling device comprisingacase for holding a plurality of bottles, a liquid-receiving tray having apertures corresponding in number and position to the mouths of such bottles, means for detachably forcing said tray downward into said case and means in said case for separately forcing each of such bottlesupward into contact with said tray.

6. A bottle-filling device comprising a case,

for holding a plurality of bottles and having an outwardly and upwardly extending flange around its upper edge,a liquid-receiving tray adapted to engage in said flange, detachable means for holding said tray in position and 

